"When you find out your cat has developed chronic kidney disease, it may be a good opportunity for you to spend more time with your cat."
Excessive food, excessive protein, and long-term snacking are often the cumulative cause of 43% of cats entering into renal failure early. A variety of heavily processed dry foods lead to dehydration, high sodium, gastrointestinal inflammation, and long-term lack of probiotics in the internal organs. Unquantified diet (for example, general dry food feeding is random) are all reasons why cats today face liver and kidney failure early.
A case study on the reversal of Mimi, a cat with kidney failure, at the end of 2024
(Seeking the owner's permission to extract the conversation at that time)
The owner said, "My 13-year-old cat is currently in stage 4 renal failure and pancreatitis. He is now in the hospital on a drip with saline and taking anti-inflammatory drugs. A blood test showed that his anemia index has dropped to a very low level. , pancreatitis was strongly positive , and the index more than doubled to over 800. The doctor could only eat 10 tablets of prescribed feed in one meal, but the cats in our house were completely uninterested in eating the feed. Even the prescribed canned food was regurgitated. I took the heart medicine prescribed by the doctor while taking the heart medicine, but the pancreatitis continued to rise. I suspected that it was caused by the medicine, and they refused to eat at all. After two days of starvation, the doctor gave me a lot of medicine, but there was no improvement. The hepatitis index kept rising. At the third follow-up visit, I was told that my kidney failure was in the final stage and there was no way to save it. I was advised to arrange euthanasia . In fact, I suspected that the medicine was causing internal pain many times, so Mimi whined frequently from noon to night, as if she was asking for help. "
After analyzing the blood test report, a specialist will diagnose severe anemia and various inflammations in the body (pancreatitis, white blood cell mutation, etc.)
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Force-feeding and subcutaneous water are nightmares for many cat owners, and are also nightmares for cats with terminal renal disease.
Why does my master force me to eat? Why does he prick my skin with needles?
Cats who have experienced renal failure are already suffering from a variety of visceral failures, such as severe anemia, weak legs, fatigue, nausea, gastrointestinal discomfort, diarrhea, epilepsy, gastric ulcers, dehydration, pneumonia, and even some accompanied by high blood pressure and diabetes. Medical treatment generally instructs to inject subcutaneous water, but if you think about it carefully, subcutaneous water has a certain "hydration" effect, but maintaining water in this way will increase the patient's discomfort. The actual situation that often occurs is that the owner injects too much fluid (some cats will have a bulge in the abdomen due to excess water), and the process requires certain technical control.
The dry food in the kidney formula is completely lacking in water, and it is supplemented with subcutaneous water. Is this reasonable?
Assuming that kidney failure cannot be reversed, the most important thing is to ensure that the cat feels loved and cared for in its final moments.
Cats with renal failure cannot excrete phosphate ions through the kidneys, so the phosphate ion concentration in the body will rise. The accumulated phosphate ions will combine with calcium ions and accumulate in the body, causing damage to body tissues, which will seriously worsen the cat's physical condition.
Just like high-interest loans from banks, controlling loans and absorption is very important and requires extreme caution.
Cats in the first and second stages can be considered normal or have renal insufficiency, while cats entering the third and fourth stages are considered to have renal failure.
Assuming that damaged kidneys cannot recover, the treatment goal of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is to "maintain" the kidneys and prevent them from further deteriorating, with the greatest effort to extend the cat's lifespan.
How to prolong the life of cats with terminal kidney disease?
Natural fresh food: limit the intake of protein and phosphorus to reduce the burden on the kidneys and avoid excessive phosphorus ion concentration in the body. As the disease progresses, the dietary restrictions will become more stringent, and the sodium ion intake must also be reduced! Increase the intake of natural foods as a staple food to allow the body to naturally resist inflammation and restore immunity
Improve anemia: The kidneys produce hormones that produce red blood cells, but when the kidneys are damaged, they no longer produce these hormones, causing the bone marrow to stop producing red blood cells. As a result, cats will have "non-regenerative anemia" and must absorb natural nutrients that improve anemia.
Natural soup: Cats with kidney disease have increased urine output and are prone to dehydration, so you need to prepare plenty of drinking water for your cat or give them subcutaneous infusions as appropriate.
Antioxidant vegetables: prevent acidemia from causing stomatitis, oral ulcers and ultimately food refusal
Omega-3 from food: It must be the most natural omega-3 from food (for example, the fresh salmon in the "Live Kidney Nourishing Meal: Kidney Terminal Protection Meal" has a better and more efficient absorption rate than bulk capsules)
Constant ambient temperature: Owners must pay more attention to this, such as ensuring indoor ventilation to avoid stuffiness, turning on the air conditioner in hot summer, or keeping the cats warm when cold waves come, so that the cats can be in a comfortable ambient temperature.
Use medications with caution: Give the cat the appropriate medication based on its symptoms, but be extremely careful because the liver and kidneys cannot effectively eliminate toxins in the medication.
The long-term war is not terrible, what is terrible is the wrong method
The owner of 13-year-old Mimi who has been undergoing treatment for half a year: "Honestly speaking, I feel very grateful. In addition to the improvement in cat index, more importantly, I spent 80-90% of the time happily... eating normally and doing normal activities at home. I am so happy." I feel vomiting, but I already feel that I am making a profit every day. After looking at the blood test report, I feel that it is the right choice to reduce the number of drugs and not to use water. Moreover, if I take so many drugs and eat dry food, my health will become worse."
Excessive subcutaneous water can easily cause cardiac burden, giving antihypertensive drugs or hypophosphatemia drugs when there is no high blood pressure or high blood phosphorus, using synthetic blood tonic powder, these unnatural foods and drugs are harmful to cats' health every minute! Whether it is medicine or nutritional supplements, it is not "more supplements, more health".
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